{"id":142669,"date":"2023-09-04T18:13:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T18:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/?p=142669"},"modified":"2023-09-04T18:13:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T18:13:43","slug":"im-an-arsenal-u21-star-who-was-making-six-figures-as-a-16-year-old-but-not-from-football-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/sport\/im-an-arsenal-u21-star-who-was-making-six-figures-as-a-16-year-old-but-not-from-football-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm an Arsenal U21 star who was making six figures as a 16 year old… but not from football | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
REUELL WALTERS is a whizkid on the pitch and online – after\u00a0raking in \u00a310,000 a night from Fortnite aged just 16.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Arsenal Under-21\u00a0star found an incredible way to help his friends AND his bank balance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The ex-Tottenham schoolboy, now 18, devised a map for the popular video game during the coronavirus lockdown.<\/p>\n And it was so lucrative that the England Under-19 defender's first tax bill was into SIX FIGURES!<\/p>\n It's also estimated his map was used 250million times in one week.<\/p>\n And as the Londoner gets a royalty fee every time\u00a0it's played, that meant his nightly earnings\u00a0peaked at 10,000 to 15,000 dollars (\u00a38k to \u00a312k).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a video posted by 101GreatGoals, linking to UnderArmour,\u00a0Walters said: "Obviously\u00a0we weren't allowed to leave our homes so I picked up a different hobby where everyone\u00a0loves the game.<\/p>\n I think as a teenage boy I was playing Fortnite with my friends and they were talking to me about how they just wanted to play this game mode and how it hadn't been made before.<\/p>\n "So I just decided, you know, I'll make something for them to play."<\/p>\n He added: "It was probably one of the first things that was made in lockdown.<\/p>\n <\/picture>HITTING OUT <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>FOOTIE ARREST <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>ROY ASSAULT <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>SEEING RED <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n FREE BETS – BEST BETTING OFFERS AND BONUSES NEW CUSTOMERS<\/strong><\/p>\n "It was not viral but you know people started to play with other people and you know it started to take off from there."<\/p>\n Now the right-back is hoping for the same lift-off for his football career – as he dreams of nearing the first-team squad this season.<\/p>\nREAD MORE TOP STORIES<\/span><\/h2>\n
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